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...about his role in it, claiming he perjured himself and obstructed justice in 2005 when, while answering questions from immigration authorities, he denied involvement in the Havana attacks even though he had told the New York Times in 1998 that he'd taken part in them. Posada's Miami lawyer, Arturo V. Hernandez, says his client denies the charge. "[His] defense will be a clear and direct one, which is that he told the truth," Hernandez tells TIME. "We share in a common sense of optimism about the truth coming out in the end." (Hernandez won't say why Posada...
...Doctors do not have a license to pump innocent and often vulnerable people full of dangerous chemicals.' JERRY BROWN, California attorney general, on filing charges against two doctors and the lawyer turned beau of Anna Nicole Smith for giving the model illegal prescriptions before her 2007 death from a drug overdose...
...Memorial Church become such a central religious institution at Harvard? While the history of Harvard has always been intertwined with Protestantism, Harvard was not founded simply as a Puritan seminary. From the beginning, Harvard had no institutional affiliation with a denomination. The installation of lawyer John Leverett as university president in 1708 was a testament to Harvard’s secular—rather than religious—roots...
...Phyllis Schlafly squared off against the National Organization for Women and other pro-ERA groups in one of the most bitter battles of the 1970s. Critics denounced her as a hypocrite: though she lauded stay-at-home mothers and wives, she herself was a full-time political activist and lawyer. Nonetheless, Schlafly's grass-roots efforts prevailed, and the ERA went down to defeat. Now 84, Schlafly remains a force in conservative politics, with a busy lecture schedule. She is the president of the pro-life, anti-gay marriage Eagle Forum, which has 25,000 members. TIME senior reporter Andrea...
...disappointed that the Attorney General of the State of New York has filed this hasty and ill-conceived civil lawsuit, against which we intend to defend vigorously," said Merkin's lawyer, Andrew Levander, in response to the charges. "The evidence shows that this lawsuit is without merit. Contrary to the Attorney General's allegation, investors in the Ascot Funds were well aware that the money was being invested with Madoff...